1876 in the United Kingdom

1876 in the United Kingdom:

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Sport

1876 English cricket season

1875-76 in English football

Events from the year 1876 in the United Kingdom.

[edit] Incumbents

• Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - Benjamin Disraeli, Conservative

[edit] Events

• April
  • The Settle-Carlisle Railway is opened to passenger traffic.
  • The Royal Titles Act 1876 gives Queen Victoria the title of Empress of India.^[1]
• 7 April - Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton becomes Viceroy of India.^[1]
• 13 July - The prosecution of Arthur Tooth, an Anglican clergyman, for using ritualist practices begins.
• August - The Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli made Earl of Beaconsfield by Queen Victoria.^[1]
• 5 September - William Gladstone's Bulgarian Horrors pamphlet is published.^[1]
• 7 October - First greyhound race to use an artificial hare is held, at Hendon.^[2]

[edit] Undated

• Charles Wells opens his brewery based in Bedford.
• The Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland is founded.
• Port Vale Football Club is formed.
• Stourbridge Football Club is formed.
• Henry Wickham smuggles rubber seeds out of Brazil leading to the eventual collapse of the Amazon rubber boom.^[1]

[edit] Publications

• Anthony Trollope's book The Prime Minister published, the fifth of the Palliser novels.^[1]
• George Eliot's book Daniel Deronda published.^[1]

[edit] Births

• 29 January - Havergal Brian, composer (died 1972)
• 16 February - G.M. Trevelyan, historian (died 1962)
• 11 March - Carl Ruggles, composer (died 1971)
• 28 April - Thomas Crisp, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1917)
• 7 May - Samuel Courtauld, art collector (died 1947)
• 13 June - William Sealy Gosset, chemist (died 1937)
• 8 August - Sophia Duleep Singh, Princess and suffragette (died 1948)
• 1 September - Harriet Shaw Weaver, political activist (died 1961)
• 2 November - William Haywood, architect (died 1957)
• 7 November - Charlie Townsend, cricketer (died 1958)

[edit] Deaths

• 24 May - Henry Kingsley, novelist (born 1830)

[edit] References

[edit] See also